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405: Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor?

Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig

404: The Financial Secrecy Index: Shedding New Light on the Geography of Secrecy

Alex Cobham, Petr Janský and Markus Meinzer

403: New Estimates of Global Poverty and Inequality: How Much Difference Do Price Data Really Make?

Peter Edward and Andy Sumner

402: Guarantees, Subsidies, or Paying for Success? Choosing the Right Instrument to Catalyze Private Investment in Developing Countries

Owen Barder and Theodore Talbot

401: The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Strategies to Expand Treatment to HIV-Positive South Africans: Scale Economies and Outreach Costs

Gesine Meyer-Rath, Arthur Over, Daniel Klein and Anna Bershteyn

400: The World Bank: Why It Is Still Needed and Why It Still Disappoints

Martin Ravallion

399: The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal

Michael Clemens

398: Do Mobile Phone Surveys Work in Poor Countries?

Ben Leo, Robert Morello, Jonathan Mellon, Tiago Peixoto and Stephen Davenport

397: Fiscal Policy, Inequality, and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala

Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig and Hilcías Morán

396: Trade, Migration, and the Place Premium: Mexico and the United States

Davide Gandolfi, Timothy Halliday and Raymond Robertson

395: Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths

Willa Friedman

394: The Impact of Gavi on Vaccination Rates: Regression Discontinuity Evidence

Sarah Dykstra, Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur

393: The Face of African Infrastructure: Service Availability and Citizens' Demands

Benjamin Leo, Robert Morello and Vijaya Ramachandran

392: Measurement and Monitoring for REDD+: The Needs, Current Technological Capabilities and Future Potential

Scott Goetz, Matthew Hansen, Richard Houghton, Wayne Walker, Nadine Laporte and Jonah Busch

391: Value Subtraction in Public Sector Production: Accounting Versus Economic Cost of Primary Schooling in India

Lant Pritchett and Yamini Aiyar

390: The Politics of German Finance for REDD+

Till Pistorius and Laura Kiff

389: Climate Policy Constraints and NGO Entrepreneurship: The Story of Norway’s Leadership in REDD+ Financing

Erlend A. T. Hermansen and Sjur Kasa

388: Two Global Challenges, One Solution: International Cooperation to Combat Climate Change and Tropical Deforestation

Antonio G.M. La Viña and Alaya de Leon

387: To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell and Pia Raffler

386: The California REDD+ Experience: The Ongoing Political History of California’s Initiative to Include Jurisdictional REDD+ Offsets within Its Cap-and-Trade System

Jesse Lueders, Cara Horowitz, Ann Carlson, Sean Hecht and Edward Parson

385: Why Maintaining Tropical Forests Is Essential and Urgent for a Stable Climate

Rosa Goodman and Martin Herold

384: Trading Forests: Quantifying the Contribution of Global Commodity Markets to Emissions from Tropical Deforestation

Martin Persson, Sabine Henders and Thomas Kastner

383: Costing a Data Revolution

Gabriel Demombynes and Justin Sandefur

382: How Much Will Health Coverage Cost? Future Health Spending Scenarios in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

Amanda Glassman and Juan Zoloa

381: Who Pollutes? A Household-Level Database of America’s Greenhouse Gas Footprint

Kevin Ummel

380: Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests: Review of Current Science

Katrina Brandon

379: The Value of Forest Ecosystem Services to Developing Economies

Katrina Mullan

378: The State of REDD+ Finance

Marigold Norman and Smita Nakhooda

377: Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert and Christopher Udry

376: Who Runs the International System? Power and the Staffing of the United Nations Secretariat

Paul Novosad and Eric Werker

375: How Has the Developing World Changed since the Late 1990s? A Dynamic and Multidimensional Taxonomy of Developing Countries

Andy Sumner and Sergio Tezanos Vázquez

374: The Anatomy of Program-for-Results - An Approach to Results-Based Aid

Alan Gelb and Nabil Hashmi

373: The Political Economy of Bad Data: Evidence from African Survey & Administrative Statistics

Justin Sandefur and Amanda Glassman

372: How Should Donors Respond to Resource Windfalls in Poor countries? From Aid to Insurance

Anton Dobronogov, Alan Gelb and Fernando Brant Saldanha

371: Peer Review of Social Science Research in Global Health- A View Through Correspondence Letters to The Lancet

Victoria Fan, Rachel Silverman, David Roodman and William Savedoff

370: Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College

Michael Clemens, Colum Graham and Stephen Howes

369: The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Daniel Ayalew Ali, Matthew Collin, Klaus Deininger, Stefan Dercon, Justin Sandefur and Andrew Zeitlin

368: Learning without Teachers? A Randomized Experiment of a Mobile Phone-Based Adult Education Program in Los Angeles

Christopher Ksoll, Janny Aker, Danielle Miller, Karla Perez-Mendoza and Susan Smalley

367: Understanding Latin America’s Financial Inclusion Gap

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Maria Amado

366: Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth?

Michael Clemens and David McKenzie

365: Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances

Michael Clemens, Çaglar Özden and Hillel Rapoport

364: On the Distributed Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira Bejarano

363: A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration

Michael Clemens

362: We Just Ran Twenty-Three Million Queries of the World Bank's Website

Sarah Dykstra, Benjamin Dykstra and Justin Sandefur

361: What Drives Deforestation and What Stops It? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies

Kalifi Ferretti-Gallon and Jonah Busch

360: Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States

Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Whitney Ruble and Timothy Smeeding

359: Does Development Reduce Migration?

Michael Clemens

358: The Health Financing Transition: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence

Victoria Fan and William Savedoff

357: Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa’s Missing Middle

Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer and Vijaya Ramachandran

356: Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War

Juan Camilo Castillo, Daniel Mejia and Pascual Restrepo